Katerine Gutierrez Villaverde is the founder and creative director of Traces of the World.

Shaped by an intercultural upbringing and years lived and worked across different countries, her practice moves between fashion, textile culture and regenerative design.

Her background in design, styling, entrepreneurship and international strategy across Antwerp, Paris, Amsterdam and Madrid formed a sensitivity to material, form and the relationships behind creative work.

Years spent working alongside textile communities in Mexico and Guatemala, and more recently in India, led to Traces of the World: a contemporary textile house grounded in territory, material and living knowledge.

Her approach is systemic, considering each piece through the relatonship that shape it from landscape and fibre to maker, wearer and future.